The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-19
New Publications.

GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology will
have in the November Scribner's notable
economic and social essay, entitled What
Shall We Tell the Working Casses?"
THE Camp on the Brute: An Idyll of the
Northwest" is an artistic and charming
gem in the pamphlet line published by the
passenger department of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway. The illustrations
and descriptive matter ought to tempt
multitudes of saints who worship Nature
into Just such camps. The authors are j.
w. Sanderson and Mrs. j. w. Sanderson.
THE October Wide ADdke %. Lothrop
Co., Boston, is full of good things includ-
ing the tale of the pitcher-plant, by Grant
Allen; a Catskill bear story; continual
ton of the series of papers on how banking
is done; Amanda b. Harris " Indian Corn
Talk" Margaret Sidney's paper on the
Concord library and it's treasures sketch
of Miss Alice Freeman, president of Welles-
ley College, the sports and games of
animals, by Mr. Holden; story of an
African princess, by Mrs. NJ f. NJ Davis;
the serial stories and Maurice Thompsons
story of his first voyage. The poetry of the
number is fine. The Wide drake is $40 a
year.
OUR DUMB ANIMALS for October gives an
excellent portrait of Louis AgassiZ at the
age of tifty-five and views of his birthplace
in Switzerland, and of Agassiz at work in
the Hotel DIES Neuchatelois, near the glacier
of Aar, taken from the life and correspond
ence of Agassiz, written by his wife, Eliza
beth Cary Agassiz, and published by Hough-
ton, Mitflin & Co. This number has an
article from the New York Times concerning
cruelty to animals in the ranch cattle in
dustry, which states that Sin Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho alone 100000 cattle
starved or We're frozen to death last win
ter" And all this cruelty and suffering
comes from negligence in making provision
for feeding and sheltering herds in the snow
storms of winter. The Dumb AnindtS is
doing good work in training people to be
more humane.
THE new volume in Ticknor's Paper
Series is Aunt Serena" by Blanche Willis
Howard, author of Guenn" and 4" One
Summer" In its original and more expen-
sive cloth-bound form this admirable story
reached the enormous sale of 1000 copies,
and an immense edition will be called for
in the new and cheaper shape. 1t is a
charming and healthful story of American
colony life and society in a South German
city, full of bright and piquant situations.
In some of the situations and contrasts
there is something suggestive of James
" Daisy Miller" Howells Lady of the
Aroostook " and Mrs. Burnett's Fair Bar
harlan $50 far, at least, as concerns the
effects which are gained by placing fresh
young American girl amid the strange GUS
toms and strict conventionalities of Euro
pean society. Mrs. Vivian, Mrs. Lancaster
and the other members of the ill-natured
coterie who carry on their vivisections in
the pension at Wyndburg recall some of the
characters in that much-talked-about story,
" BY the Tiber." Dear Aunt Serena, with
her calm dignity, her sunny sympathies
and her quick intuitions, is character who
wins the readers heart from the beginning
and is scarcely less lovely or lovable than
the pure and sweet young Rose, whom she
chaperones in her simple and sensible way.
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the characters are clearly drawn and leave
a distinct impression upon the mind of the
reader the incidents are natural and the
interest is well sustained.